Rein-guide.



W. LAUDON.

REIN GUIDE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 8. 1909.

Patented Feb. 8, 1910.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM LAUDON, OF GREENVILLE, WISCONSIN.

REIN-GUIDE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itl known that I, IVILLIAM LAUDoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greenville, in the county of Outagainie and State of lVisconsin, have invented a new and useful Irein-Gruide;I and I do hereby declare the following' to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such. as

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 8, 1909.

will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to inalre and use the saine.

This invention belongs to the art of harness, and it pertains particularly to an attachnient or spreader or a guide for the. reins: and the essential object of the inveiition is to provide a device of this design, which is simple and efficient in the details of construction, and exceptionally practical in use.

The invention ainis as a further object, the provision of a single length of nietallic wire or other material, shaped in contour as shown in the annexed drawings, in order to provide journals for a series of cooperating beveled end friction nienibers or rollers, which forni guides for the reins. Said wire after having received the friction ineinbers or rollers. and being bent into the shape, as shown, has its ends welded or soldered together, so as to provide rigidity for journals of the. friction inenibers.

The features, elenients and the arrangeio practice are coinpreheiided by the appended claini.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention.y showing the application thereof. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the spreader or rein guide. Fig. 3 a sectional vview through the spreader or guide, showing clearly the contour of the wire, which fornis the. journals for the friction inenibers or rollers.

In regard to the annexed drawing, wherein siniilar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in the several illustrations, l designates the haines, which are provided with lateral projecting rings 2. Engaging' the rings 2 are straps 3, the lower looped portions of which receive the loops or eyes Je of the inetallic rectangular supporting franies 5. These franies are composed of single lengths of wire 6, which are shapedA l l l l i i Patented Feb. 8, 1910.

serial No. 488,776.

rectangular in contour, so as to forni the vertical port-ions 'i' and the horizontal portions S. These portions 7 and 8 are designed for the purpose of forniing journals for the frictioiial nienibers 9 and 10 which are engaged by the reins 11, of the harness, so as to forni guides therefor, when the saine are inanipulated. This spreader or guide is more especially adapted, where there is niore than one horse einployed, in order to prevent tangling of the reins. The frictional nienibers 9 are beveled upon their either ends, as shown at 12, so as to be frictionally engaged by the annular beveled portions 13 of the friction inenibers 10, as will be clearly inanifest. These friction nienibers allow the reins to niove freely. The lengths of wire after being' forined into the rectangular shapes, are bent at obtuse angles, as shown at 141, then directed angiilarly upward, as shown at 15, and are then twisted about one another at the points indicated by the nunierals 1G, as shown. After the lengths of wire are twisted in the inannershown, they are forined into rectangular loops or eyes 4, and the extreinities of the lengths of wire are welded or soldered together, as at 17. The twisting of the lengths of wire insure rigidity for the journals of the frictioiial nienibers.

Froni the foregoing, the essential features, eleinents and the operation of the device, together with the siniplicity thereof, will be clearly apparent,

Having thus fully described the invention, what is clainied, as new and useful, is:-

In a spreader or rein guide, a single length of wire forined into a rectangular shaped loop in order to provide vertical and horizontal journals, said length of wire at locations directly opposite being bent at obtuse angles to forni abutnients parallel with said horizontal journal, said wire being then directed angularly upward, twisted together and foi-ined withv a loop or eye, anti-frictional nienibers having cooperating annular beveled portions received by said journals, said abutinents acting to hold the anti-frictional nienibers in cooperative relations.

In testiinony whereof I have signed iny naine to this specification iii the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VILLIAM LAUDON.

lVitnesses GLEN Monsn, RINNIE RUFFERT. 

